I formed the strongest swordsman group

"Is it to boost everyone's morale..." Tianzhangyuan nodded after thinking for a moment, "That's okay... special methods are used in special times, and now we really need some role models to motivate the officials."

Seeing Tianzhangyuan's support for his actions, Tokugawa Iemo's brows were slightly excited.

"In less than three months, he has even made two great achievements...Ju Qingdeng's current achievements are considered to be the best among his peers." Tokugawa Jiashige slowly retracted the scroll in his hand with a look of emotion on his face. "I just hope that Ju Qingdeng won't be complacent and complacent just because he won a big reward."

Best among peers - after hearing this sentence, the corners of Tianzhangyuan's eyebrows twitched in a subtle way.

Perhaps it was touched by this familiar sentence... A piece of memory that had been dusty in Tianzhangyuan's mind for a long time, the thick dust covering it was blown away at this moment.

This fragment of memory, which was blown away from the old dust, quickly condensed into a concrete picture, which flashed before Tianzhangyuan's eyes——

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"Yu Yi, why haven't you slept yet?"

"Father... I can't sleep a little bit."

"Oh, are you too nervous? That's right. Tomorrow is your coming-of-age ceremony. It's normal for you to feel anticipation and nervousness."

"No, Father, I'm not nervous about tomorrow's coming-of-age ceremony...I'm worried..."

"Worried? Yu Yi, what are you worried about?"

"After the coming-of-age ceremony, I will officially become a big girl who can marry... What kind of man will my future husband be? Thinking about this makes me sleepless."

"Hoho... I never thought that Yuyi in our family would always be careless like a boy, and there would be such a girly time, hahahaha!"

"Father, don't laugh! I just want to talk to you, so I tell you this! If you laugh again, I will never tell you anything again!"

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh, I won't laugh anymore. Are you worried about what kind of man you will marry in the future... Then what kind of man do you want your future husband-in-law to be?"

"Well... I hope my future husband is the number one man in Japan!"

"Japan, Japan number one?"

"Yeah! Whether it's his peers or seniors, no one can compare to him, the number one man in Japan!"

"Number one in Japan... Haha, Yu Yi, your ambition is not small. It may be difficult to find such a man."

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"What did you say?! Say it again!"

"The vassal, the lord of the vassal wants to take Miss Yu, Miss Yuyi as an adopted daughter, and then let Miss Yuyi go to Edo and become the new imperial office of the shogunate..."

"The new imperial office of the shogunate...? Do you want Yu Yi to marry that Tokugawa family?! No way! I will never allow it! I will not allow Yu Yi to marry that cripple who is not even mentally normal! The feudal lord, he is this What do you want to do? Is he trying to sacrifice my daughter's happiness for the benefit of the kingdom?!"

"Coco, but... the lord has already ordered..."

"I don't care what order Shimadzu Qibin made! No matter what, it is impossible to use my daughter as a sacrifice! Prepare the sedan chair! I will go to the feudal mansion to talk to Shimadzu Qibin right now! Why are you standing still! Prepare the sedan chair! Prepare the sedan chair !"

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"...my... my lord... my lord, what's wrong with you?"

"Huh?" Tenzhangin, who came back from the memories because of Tokugawa Ieshige's call, blinked vigorously a few times, and looked up at Tokugawa Iemo who was looking at him with worried eyes.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Iemo Tokugawa frowned, "Why were you in a daze just now? Are you too tired?"

"Ah, it's okay." Tianzhangyuan smiled softly, "I just... just recalled some past events."

"The past? My lord, what kind of past is it? Can you tell the child?"

"...just some old things that are not worth mentioning."

Tianzhangyuan still smiled gently.

However, the corners of her raised mouth were hiding a bit of sourness at this moment...

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At this very moment—

Edo, the suburbs, somewhere——

A black shadow sprang out from the shadows where the moonlight could not reach.

He looked around and after confirming that there were no outsiders around, he turned around and beckoned to the dark shadow he just jumped out of.

"Mr. Kanno, it's safe outside, you can come out now."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the shadow "squirming"—the expressionless Shen Ye walked out of the shadow slowly.

Walking out of this shadow with Shen Ye, there are also a group of Shen Ye's cronies such as the one-armed samurai.

A thin dark cloud happened to be covering the strings right now, and the light was rather dim.

But even in such dim light, the one-armed samurai and the others could clearly see that Shenye's face was frighteningly livid... as if blue water could drip out at any time.

Everyone who knew that Shenye was in a terrible mood now, they all kept their mouths shut very smartly, and no one dared to give birth.

Kanno's current mood...is actually not bad.

Rather bad!

Recalling all that happened just now, Shen Ye felt so annoyed that his chest was blocked by a big stone.

Tonight was supposed to be a pretty perfect night.

The Tianzhong Party is an organization that has not been established for a long time, and it is an organization that pursues the "radical idea of ​​fighting against barbarians" like their anti-barbarian group.

They have a certain relationship between the barbarian group and this Tianzhong party. Although the relationship with each other is not very close, they have not turned against each other.

However, some recent misdemeanors of the Tianzhong Party annoyed Shenye.

These guys actually dare to poach his corner! Relying on money and beauty, he poached several talented talents under Shen Ye's command!

We didn't come to provoke you, but you took the initiative to provoke us!

The Barbarian Group is Shenye's painstaking effort, and he has no intention of forgiving the Tianzhong Party's behavior of poaching his corner.

The strength of the Tianzhong Party is far inferior to that of the Barbarians. If they start a fight with them, the Barbarians will win.

But Shenye did not want to take revenge on the Tianzhong Party in a "reckless" way.

Even in the face of the Tianzhong Party, their fighting group has an absolute advantage in combat power, but if they go head-to-head with the Tianzhong Party, they will definitely pay a certain amount of casualties.

In order to come up with a strategy that could abolish or even destroy the Tianzhong Party without a single soldier, Shenye sent several spies who pretended to defect to the Tianzhong Party to collect internal intelligence for him.

Not long after, Shenye learned a very useful and important piece of information from the spies—in order to save enough military expenses, the Tianzhong Party decided to sneak attack Ryogoku Hirokoji tonight and rob Ryogoku Hirokoji's money.

After learning this information, a strategy of "driving tigers and devouring wolves" quickly emerged in Shenye's mind...

The strategy of "driving tigers and wolves" he thought of is not complicated - try to let Feng Xing know that the Tianzhong Party will attack Guangxiao Road in Ryogoku tonight, and let the officials of the execution office come to help him severely damage the Tianzhong Party !

The plan has been decided, and the rest is to modify the details.

In order to make the "leakage" of the information that "Ryogoku Hirokoji will be attacked" more natural, Kanno sent someone to bring false news to Kosaburo Hirota: They are going to rob Ryogoku Hirokoji's money tonight!

Regarding Kosaburo Hirota...Kano noticed very early on that this grassroots member of their anti-barbarian team did not have a firm determination to fight against barbarians.

So Kanno expected that Hirota would be very likely to become timid after learning that the barbarian group was going to do such a crazy thing, and then leak the information to the enforcement office.

The reason why it is said that they want to rob Ryogoku Guangxiaolu's money by force is that the Barbarian Group is more likely to attract the attention and vigilance of the Enforcement Office than a little-known Tianzhong Party. .

Shenye's original purpose was just to take revenge on the Tianzhong Party and to abolish the Tianzhong Party, and he had no other plans.

But after thoroughly formulating this strategy of "driving tigers and devouring wolves"... Shenye's ambition suddenly grew!

Kanno has always had a big prejudice against the execution office in Edo—in Kanno's eyes, the officials of the execution office who have been fighting against the barbarians are just a bunch of rice buckets and running dogs with corpses and vegetarian meals!

Why don't you... use this opportunity to humiliate the Edo Enforcement Office who has been looking for trouble for them.

They deceived the Enforcement Office into spending great efforts to fortify Liangliang Guangxiao Road. When the Enforcement Office cleaned up the Tianzhong Party for them, they swaggered directly under the eyes of the Enforcement Office to attack the place they really wanted to attack!

I spent a lot of effort to defend Edo, but the defense didn't work at all, and I didn't stop the enemy at all... There is no stronger humiliating effect than this!

Taking revenge on the Tianzhong Party, destroying the place they really wanted to destroy, and humiliating the execution center—kill three birds with one stone!

As a result, Shen Ye, who had swollen ambitions, had great confidence in himself, and was determined to kill three birds with one stone overnight, revised his plan.

The content of "driving tigers and wolves" remains unchanged, but the content of personally leading a large army to attack the Tibetan Book Institute has been added.

The Fanshu Research Institute, which specializes in foreign studies, has always been a thorn in their eyes for the barbarian group.

Shenye has long listed Fan Shu Diao as one of their mandatory targets.

Anyway, sooner or later, the Fanshu Tiaoshou will be wiped out, so let's just raze this hateful place where traitors gather tonight!

In order to ensure the success of the plan, Kanda added a link of "burning the Edo city and town to attract the attention of the temple".

The great cause of fighting barbarians is supreme! To accomplish such a great cause, sacrifice is inevitable! Just suffer for the people of Edo! It is also an honor for them to dedicate their lives to the great cause of fighting barbarians!

Tonight, Shenye's plan to kill three birds with one stone did not go well in the early stage.

The Enforcement Institute succeeded in injuring the Tianzhong Party for them on the Guangxiao Road in the two countries.

Their subsequent arson was also very smooth, successfully disrupting Edo and attracting the attention of the execution office.

When they first attacked the Fanshu Tiao's office, the battle went smoothly. The weak defensive force of the Fanshu's Tiao's office could not stop them at all.

However... just the last step...

Obviously, there is only one last step left to bring tonight's action to a successful conclusion...

It's because of that orange...!

It was because of his sudden appearance that Shenye's actions tonight appeared extremely glaring flaws!

It didn't completely destroy the Fanshu Institute! The large force from the enforcement office arrived much earlier than expected and caused many of their companions to be arrested!

It's him again!

He was the one who got in the way when he attacked and killed the French merchants!

And now it was this guy who made their actions tonight unsatisfactory!

Damn! Damn!

The more Kanno thought about it, the more angry he became, his teeth were clenched.

He really wanted to tear this hateful national thief into pieces right now! Otherwise, it would be hard for him to get rid of the hatred in his heart!

"Ju Qingdeng...I must kill you with my own hands...!"

Kanno slowly turned his head and looked at Edo City in the distance.

In the pupils of the eyes, there is a killing intent that cannot be hidden no matter what.

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5 days later——

In the first year of Wanyan (1860), April 1——

Edo, Koishikawa Kohinata Yanagi-cho, Shouweikan——

Goo! Goo! Goo!

The crows outside the window sent their noisy calls.

The setting sun had already sunk below the horizon, and the afterglow reflected the clouds in the sky red.

Because it is now closing time, the dojo in the test guard hall is now empty—only one person remains in the center of the dojo.

Qingdeng, who was not wearing any protective gear, held a bamboo sword and closed his eyes tightly.

I saw him sometimes squatting down, sometimes standing up, sometimes walking forward, and sometimes slashing at the air in front of him... At first glance, he thought that Qing Deng was out of his mind and was fighting wits with the air, but in fact Qing Deng Deng is now conducting a "mock battle".

——At that time... If I could take half a step forward, I would be able to further suppress Kanno...

In Qingdeng's mind, he kept showing and replaying the scenes and details of the one-on-one match with Shenye 5 days ago.

Remember the battle at that time.

Think about what you didn't do well at the time and what you can improve.

The body moves with the thought!

Standing alone in the center of the dojo, he dodges, defends, counterattacks, and attacks... Obviously there is no one in front of him, but his faster and sharper movements really seem to be another fierce battle in Shenye.

After nearly half an hour passed, Qingdeng gradually stopped the bamboo sword in his hand and slowly opened his eyes.

After such a long time of exhausting "simulated battle", Qingdeng's body is covered with a thin layer of sweat.

He shrugged his right shoulder, casually wiped the sweat off his face with the cloth on his right shoulder, then grinned and let out a chuckle of joy.

"Very good...the strength has improved a little...!"

In recognition of Qingtou's achievements, and in order to allow Qingtou, who was cut by Kanno to cut his left leg during the battle with Kanno, to rest in peace, Susui generously gave Qingtou a 10-day vacation.

Qingdeng made the most of his long-lost vacation.

Since the holiday, he has hardly been anywhere—he has been staying in the test hall, and while his memory is still clear, he keeps replaying the battle with Shenye.

Recently, Qingdeng has become more and more aware of the strength of the talent he copied from Shannan: "photographic memory".

When he first copied to "Photographic Memory", Qingdeng thought that this talent was only good for his academic study.

But with the passage of time, Qingdeng discovered that: a strong memory is also of great benefit to his cultivation of martial arts!

Because of his strong memory, he can remember every battle in the past very clearly, which can help Qingdeng replay these battles very well!

Even though it has been 5 days now, Qingdeng still remembers all the details of the one-on-one fight against Kanno...when did he make any moves, and when did Shenye make any moves.

A life-and-death confrontation with the Barbarian Group in the Fanshu Institute——As far as the result is concerned, the incident 5 days ago really made Qingdeng reap a lot.

Counting it carefully, Qingdeng has achieved five major gains in this incident.

The first harvest: Qingdeng copied a new talent from Shenye: hair.

This talent... From a certain point of view, it can be regarded as a very strong talent.

How many people are bothered by the pain of hair loss?

Now that Qingdeng has the talent of "beautiful hair", he should no longer need to worry about hair loss, receding hairline and other problems in the future.

The second harvest: I made friends with Katsu Rintaro and the Fanshu Institute.

There is no need to go into details on this - Katsu Rintaro and the scholars of the Fanshu Research Institute are extremely grateful to Qingdeng for saving their lives.

The Fanshu Tiao Institute is the current academic center of the Edo shogunate for the study of Western studies, and a bunch of academic experts gather here to do research.

As for Katsu Rintaro, let alone, he is a political celebrity who has been trusted by General Tokugawa Iemo and Oyodai Tenzhoin in recent years.

Qingdeng, who now has a special relationship with this important official of the shogunate and this academic center with a low status, can be regarded as having an extra political backer, and is no longer a dry duckling without any support in the political world.

The third harvest: The fierce battle with Kanno and others gave Qingdeng a new breakthrough in his strength.

The battle with Shenye and the others made Qingdeng firmly believe: it really is this kind of real sword duel to the death, which can enhance a person's strength even more!

Regardless of which method can improve a person's strength, 100 friendly sparring sessions wearing protective gear and using bamboo swords can't compare to a deathmatch with a real sword in hand, where one's life is at stake.

In the past few days, Qingdeng has been constantly replaying the battle with Shenye and others in his mind.

Thinking about what shortcomings I still had at the time, what tricks I didn't use well, and whether there was anything I could improve...

Relying on "photographic memory" to review the battle.

Then, with the blessing of "Sword Talent" and "Ghost Heart", two god-level talents with extremely perverted effects, after reviewing the game again and again, Qingdeng felt that his current level of swordsmanship had successfully improved by a level. Great cut!

Qingdeng felt—let him practice hard for a while, or let him have one or two fierce real sword duels with someone, his strength will be improved to the point where he will not be able to fight against Shen Ye again. Trigger the "Lonely" level!

The fourth harvest: Qingdeng's reputation has been further improved.

Needless to say, this Qingdeng who has made great contributions has been heard and familiarized by more people.

As for Saito, Yongcang and others, they also became famous in one battle.

The people in the Nan and Bei Fansuo now know that Qingdeng has recruited some extremely skilled subordinates!

All of them are good players who can defeat ten with one, Qingdeng can make another great contribution, and the cooperation of Saito, Yongcang and others is indispensable.

Because Qingdeng only led these few subordinates, and his record of beating up the dozens of members of the barbarian group who attacked the Fanshu Institute was too dazzling and tough, so now it is even rumored that To put it this way: Qingdeng's troops are currently the number one "fighting faction" in the Edo Magistrate's Office!

In the past few days, while some of Qingdeng's colleagues came to visit Qingdeng, they took advantage of the opportunity to ask Qingdeng where he recruited such a strong Gang Yin.

Qingdeng is also willing to advertise for Qianshiwu, which has been taking care of him a lot.

So whenever someone asks this question, Qingdeng will enthusiastically answer that the boss of Senshiwu, Kiryu, introduced him. By the way, he also praised what a high-quality employment agency Senshiwu is.

As for the fifth harvest...it was the most unexpected harvest for Qingdeng.

Just yesterday, the reward for Qingdeng who made another great contribution was confirmed and distributed.

The bounty is 50 taels, and the bonus is 400 stones! Promoted to an intermediate royal family with 500 Shijialu!

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